Rate My Professor Chris Wille

As an artist and educator based in Bloomington, Illinois, Wille combines new media with traditional sculptural techniques to form hybrid works, exhibited nationally and internationally in locations including New York, Texas, Arkansas, South Korea, Berlin, Germany, and Reykjavík, Iceland. He is a founding member of Sphere Collective, engaging in research and production collaborations with Brian Patrick Franklin on projects such as “Dark Web” since 2015, “Currency” presented at the SRA Symposium and DIGRA 2014, and others like “Infection by Injection” at Festival Internacional de la Imagen 2014. Wille has earned distinctions including a Merit Award at the Emerging Illinois Artist exhibition at McLean County Arts Center in 2007, an Honorable Mention at the 4th Cheongju International Craft Competition in 2005, and artist residencies at I-Park in East Haddam, Connecticut (2009), SÍM in Reykjavík, Iceland (2010), and Arteles in Hämeenkyrö, Finland (2012). His contributions extend to public engagement through artist talks, lectures, and workshops, such as the Dean's Lecture “Flood-tide below me, I see you face to face…” at Eureka College in 2025, presentations at CAA Annual Conferences in 2017 and 2015, international lectures in Finland in 2012, and panel discussions on site-specific and interactive media. Wille has juried art festivals including Sugar Creek Arts Festival and served on committees like Scholarship & Recruitment at Illinois State University and Title IX panels.